Sharing A HipChat Room With Users On Other Platforms

Sameroom is a cloud service that provides the interoperability plumbing necessary for teams on different chat platforms to communicate with each other.

Of course, the platforms don't actually have to be different—they can be exactly the same. For example, you may want to connect to another HipChat team from your HipChat team. I covered this topic in a post called "How to Work Across HipChat Teams With Ease".

In this post, I'll show you the best way to begin working with Sameroom from HipChat.

Authorize HipChat To Work With Sameroom

Due to certain limitations of the HipChat API, I highly recommend inviting a ”Sameroom Bot” account to your HipChat team, and using that bot account to work with Sameroom.

This may sound complicated, but it's a really simple process.

Step 1: Create a new HipChat user (name it Sameroom Bot). If your email address is alice@company.com, you can use alice+sameroom@company.com for new user email.